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You need every card in the game to get Rolen, Cal Raleigh is unusable with a 40 contact and the rest of the cards are awful. I've had the same dudes in my lineup for 6 weeks because all the new cards are unattainable or trash.

Who thought a bright white screen was a good idea? Fire whenever decided to get rid of the blue

Is it as bad as you'd thought it be? I went from thinking it was going to be bad, to it realizing it's horrible. It's almost July and I went from using Posada, Rollins, and Escobar to using 87 William Contreras and 86 Live Series DeGrom. What an absolute disaster.

Does anyone else hate the sound of hitting this year? It sounds like you're hitting with a wiffleball bat, and when you get a perfect perfect it sounds like a broken bat in real life. Who approved this change?

But they're right about Season 2. I gave it the weekend to see how it is, and everyone was right: it's awful. No one wants to grind team affinity for guys with 74 contact and 81 power. We just did this 6 weeks ago. What a disaster

It's been 2 weeks, and a lot of people still can't use their custom uniforms. How hasn't SDS fixed this yet? It's unreal.

Credit to SDS, they made Team Affinity 100x better than last year. It's way quicker and doesn't seem like a punishment. I also like the fact that you can pitch with boss for 3 inimhz and get 15,000 xp out of it, and it's also repeatable.

I think the time has come boys: I'm Washed. The last few years I've been a WS player ( I play a lot so not that impressive) every season. I usually hit .360-.370 per season and hit well on HOF and ok on Legend. So far this year I'm horrendous. I hit more "very early" foul balls then follow it with a very late on the next pitch than anyone in history. I just moved to a new apartment so I'm holding out hope that it's the WiFi causing me to be trash, but that may just be a cope. In all seriousness, does anyone know if playing on 5 gHZ vs automatic makes a difference? I kept crashing when I had it set to automatic, set it to 5 gHZ, now I'm terrible. Could just be a cope though like I said.

1. Create an all Strikes mode- If anyone remembers the 2K games, there was an option to turn on all strikes where you couldn't physically throw a ball. Give the people this option in some online game modes if they want to. A lot of people are strapped for time and don't want to sit there taking 45 of the 100 pitches they see. Make people throw it in the zone and let people swing at everything.

2. Don't make the difficulty go to legend until someone reaches 1000+ rating, GOAT 1100+.
   I think a lot of people are huge fans of playing on HOF. The game is challenging but it's not a slug fest like AS, but not a 3-2 game on 5 hits like legend. The issue now is that HOF is only 700-900, so you only have limited games on HOF. I have no interest playing on legend, so I try to play only a few games of ranked a week so I don't get to 900 with 2 weeks left in the season and have to sit there striking out on legend for 2 weeks before I go back to HOF.

3. Make Weekend Classic count towards overall record- After you play your 6 games, it becomes casual mode basically. There's no incentive to winning other than a pack because it doesn't affect rating or record, so you get a bunch of people who once they get down 1-0, they just quit.

4. Fix the randomness- This goes without saying, but the game is way too random. When two guys who are close to a similar skill play, it comes down to who the game gives a a HR to on late timing hit or who the game lets hit a very early HR.

I’ve been using meter pitching forever, and up until this year have been doing well with it. This year though, I can’t get anyone out. Guys are hitting HRs on balls that aren’t even in the strike zone. Does it deem like the game is trying to get people off of meter and to use pinpoint?

Anyone else getting the most random exit velos online the last few weeks? I just played a game where me and my opponent were a combined 6-26 on good timing swings. We both each had a perfect perfect foul ball to make things even better. It's an absolute disaster the last few weeks. Balls are being squared up and going nowhere while some swings are going out on "very early" swings on balls down and away.

I just started the Yankees team affinity to get Ruth and my god is it a lot of work.

@jweis89_mlbts said in Online Rates difficulty:

@tttmerig_psn said in Online Rates difficulty:

I never really noticed that you can pick your difficulty for online rated games, so what’s stopping really good players from playing on Rookie online and just winning game after game after game? Do you still get the same amount of credit for winning on rookie as you would winning on HOF? It seems like a garbage system and that people can easily just do this to get ranked in the top 50 for online rated?

You definitely cannot do that.

You 100% can.

I’m new to DD, so I didn’t know what to expect. Thought hitting was way too easy when I was in the 500-600 level and was a HR fest. Then I got to the 800ish level and I have zero chance of getting more than 5 hits. Dudes are throwing 100mph sinkers followed by sliders than move 9 feet. Can anyone hit at this level or did I just get really bad fast?

You’re better off just going through the top 25 and blocking the guys hitting .130 and below. The top 25 is filled with dudes who freeze it.

@pdoss3_psn said in How to get Mike Trout and Chipper Jones:

For Chipper you have to complete the live series collection. Every team. For Trout you have to get lucky and pull him from a pack or buy him.

Does Trout come in a random pack and you just get lucky. I have like 300 unopened packs just from playing and not focusing on DD, but it seems like all the players are like 80s and below so I don’t even bother opening them

Anybody else feel they're hitting with a wet newspaper. It seems like every good timing/PCI is a routine fly out, and every perfect perfect is just a single.

I thought I was pretty decent at this game until I got to the 850 level in DD, and now it’s impossible to get more than 5 hits. Edward Cabrera is throwing 134 mph sinkers that move 8 feet and Rivera is throwing cutters that move 17 feet. Fortunately, it seems like my opponents are equally as bad at hitting, so it makes the game close until someone hits a HR and wins 1-0 or 2-1. Has anyone else notices how hard the hitting is or I am just bad at it?

@bthoms91_psn said in Online ranking not showing up:

any way fix this ?

I’m having the same problem. Went from top 20 to not even having my name show up

@raesone_psn said in XP for Moments:

@tttmerig_psn said in XP for Moments:

@raesone_psn said in XP for Moments:

@tttmerig_psn said in XP for Moments:

@raesone_psn said in XP for Moments:

The 200 XP is for the actual gameplay, the amount you mentioned first is for completing it.

I get the 200 after I complete it though. For example, Trevor Story moment is to hit a HR. It says 500 on the side. I hit a HR, and it gave me like 150 XP

Yes I understand what you're saying, but you don't understand what I'm saying. The 150 is for actually hitting the homerun during gameplay, and that's what shows after the mission is done. You still get the 500, it just doesn't show in that screen. Write down the exact amount of XP you have before the next mission and you will see.

Oh my bad, so it’s 500 + whatever pops up on the screen. Thank you. Never would have figured that out haha

Yes, it would've been better if they just show the total amount in that screen but it's coded to show just the amount of XP you earned with gameplay and the 500 is a bonus. It is still applied, but doesn't show. But like I said, write down your exact amount of XP before the next mission and then look at it after the mission is complete. You'll see they gave both the XP it shows in the screen and also the XP for the mission.

Ok thank you. I thought I was just getting 200 XP for each moment so I just stopped doing them